Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-21
THE TELEGRAPH.
. of It's Control by tho General
Two Goyernmsnts
peoples MONOPOLY.
Cbfcaco Herald.

s. peoples MONOPOLY.
Chicago Heral'.
Declsration OF Independence starts
Ino ~ the implication that men should
out wa decent regard for the opinions OF
have soIlows. If any one had asked Mr.
thelL ~ = he believed the people were
Gou .So tbst the telegraph lines should be
Wlllps consolidated, it ia inconcelvsble
t1t.DWS Mr. Gould should have answered
tns. he he thought the people were willing
tns' new they were not Wiling. de
be ai IN exsct opposition to the popular
sctSu q he hougnt or assumed control OF
will baltimore and Ohio Telegraphs
tns 10 that nearly every man, woman
kn9"t WI in the United States, If he or
snu . GuI anything about it at all, was
sac "a nat Mr. Gould might not assume
WlsA ,"rsaT control of q business which
tRhV lady held badly in popular esteem.
NA2 %, 10 ieyed that Mr. Gould oppressed
l: "S I'D men, Disseminated between
MS n,s'T catered stock, and otherwise
Ipn'de besvy the burdens OF telegraph op-
msto and senders OF dispatches.
& 1tis the theory of our government That
- =. n -, are sovereign; that they rule
u. giving 8 reason; that they erect
VIZ vs. and install officers who thus be-
On I,o the servants Of the people. But, in
G SU.iness, this theory has not applied, be-
Du1 hnslness was formerly a small
c cs.ic being principally the distribution
Ss"t noods The new appurtenances Of
Sis+Tibution and production have SO faf
o";daned the enioyments of all that the
'.,ir of supplying these enjoyments has
tnoon,n greater than the affair OF govern
1 I'M" so. called. rhe people, in goVerp-
mental theory, have no ruler who Is NOT
snswersble to them; but IN 1ndnsfEaai
Isct the people have captains whose yord
= IsW. who can not be impeAched and
wbo are not democratic enough in spirit
20 nav heed to the desires of ehe peopleg
evan when ascertainable clearly& -
A. one line in the history of JeSrV the
+ribes of Israel com planned Of the rigoIs
r. a orest Ring. When he died and the
boir look the throne the complaiDants
begged for 8 soitening oflthe royal asperi-
ties. But the young man told his be-
eaechers that where the father had
econrged them with whips he would
scourge them with scorpions. From this
measure of scorpions ten tribes turned
sway. and would have none OF it. It is
this same spirit of Solomon's son that
cleans forth in Mr.. Gould. He knows
absolutely no master. The sharp lash of
the law cannot reach his back. There is
no civil statute on the books that he can
not nullify. And, breaking laws IS fast
IS he NAV, he MAKES more laws than he
breaks. Raised to this bad emiDence, ne
surveys the American people. He gives
them scoWI for scowl. They do not want
him for superintendent of telegraphs.
What cares he?
1t is not with the monopoly of tele-
graph that the reader may join issue
Monopoly is good thing, If the people
monopolze. We have an instance. The
postoffice takes, and will allow no one
else to take your letter, from, say, the
Produce Exchange at New York. A hired
man takes it to mail. A train Carries it
to Washington Territory. A stage trans
ports it fifty miles farther 1t is plaCed
in your correspondents hands. The fee
is cents, the cheapest service we get.
rerlly, the mir, men must he underpaid!
Nay, q place in the posto flee is a go.d
one, only to De obtained through great
merit or political favor. The hours are
short; the working places are pAlatial;
there has never been strike; in fact, i
strike would not be allowed, as has been
proved.
Monopoly has done these things. In
dustrislly they are wonderful things. In
that the postofice should pay
its own way is 8 thing to ponder on in
initely. But it does pay it's own way. Let
It be extended. Let the telegraph take
place in the system of governmental
monopoly. Let the private wire be ebol-
shed. Let it be statutory offense for
Mr.. Gould or any other man to send tele-
grams IS business. But that is no sign
Why any wires now in operation should
De bought, except at sheriff's prices. Mr..
Gould csnnot sell his seas of water to the
government.